Informal caregivers carry out care work that allows older adults with disabilities to cover those vital needs that they cannot do on their own. Therefore, the importance of knowing the conceptions and practices of this ...

The present project determines the incidence of the inclusion of the elderly in the occupational support project of the municipal GAD of the San Fernando canton. For this, the characterization of the current situation will ...

Currently there are few exclusive virtual spaces for this segment of the population, since older adults have been somewhat forgotten, considering them as digital immigrants, hence the need to highlight the importance of a ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the behavior of the different components of physical condition in older adults and to determine what the more deteriorated physics capability in this group of people is. The results ...

He objective of this study was to determine and correlation with the physical condition, quality of life and self-reliance of older adults at the Los Jardines Residential Center, the study makes a descriptive cross-sectional ...

Anxiety and depression disorders are more prevalent in people with psychoactive substance use problems, because addictions alter the functioning of brain circuits triggering multiple cognitive, emotional (anxious and ...